Entry № 1393 · Albanian origin

Besa Besa — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ BEH-sah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Albanian
Meaning
"Faith, sworn promise"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (Albanian)

A name that means "faith, sworn promise".

Besa is the Albanian word for "faith" or "sworn promise" — the central code of Albanian honor and hospitality.

Besa is widely used in Albania and Kosovo.

Faith, sworn promise — a Albanian name.

The name in its native script.

Besa
Transliteration
Besa
Pronunciation
/ ˈbɛs.ə /
Root
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Grammatical form
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Where Besa stands.

Besa does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Besas before her.

Real people

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In fiction
Besa
Common in Albanian fiction.

Names connected to Besa.

The number behind Besa.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Besa reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.